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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: help removing a file
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Date: 7 Sep 90 17:57:20 GMT
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>I have found that the C-shell from Sun (BSD) strips off the 8th bit of all
>arguments passed to any program.

Yup; UNIX shells have traditionally used the 8th bit internally for
quoting, and strip it off before passing arguments.  AT&T fixed the
Bourne shell in S5R3, and that version of the Bourne shell is the basis
of the one in SunOS 4.x.  Sun fixed the C shell in SunOS 4.1, and that
version of the C shell is the basis of the one in S5R4.